Mr. Smith lives in Toronto. He is a doctor. His wife teaches English in a middle school. They have two children, one is a son called Mike and the other is a daughter. She is only three months. Mike loves the baby very much. He often shows her to the guests. He is young and doesn’t go to school. He stays at home to help his mother look after the baby.

One day Mike’s aunt comes to see the baby. She works in another city and sees the baby foe the first time. Mike shows the baby to his aunt.

“Look at the baby, Aunt;” says Mike, “She’s beautiful. I think she looks like me.”

“Does she like playing with you?” asks his aunt.

“I don’t know,” answers the boy, “She can’t speak yet.”

1.Mike is ____________.

2.Ther’re __________ people in Mr Smith’s family.

3.Mrs Smith is a __________.

4.The baby is Mike’s __________.

5.Little Mike thinks ___________.

Helen and Sally are cousins. Helen is a writer. She lives  41  to Sally, She is  42  writing every day. She doesn’t want to talk to others when she is  43  . Her friends know her well. If they want to see her, they often 44  her first. If Helen tells them she has  45  , they will come to her house.
Sally works in a  46  , She is a bank clerk. She has lots of friends and they often come to see her and talk with her.  47  Helen can’t write well when they are talking. She doesn’t know what to  48  to Sally. Now Helen is talking about it with her best friend Ruth. Ruth is  49  to help Helen. She says, “You can put a note on  50  door. It would say, ‘Nobody is at home. Please come another day.’”

I have never taken cooking classes. I learned cooking from my mother because she was really interested in teaching me how to cook. The main reason for this was because when my mother got married, she didn’t know how to cook anything, not even an egg. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking.
My mother did not start to cook until she was 25 years old. In the beginning, it was very hard for her. So, she had to take cooking classes to prepare(准备) our meals. After having that experience, she decided to teach me how to cook because she didn’t want me to have the same experience.
I remember when I was seven years old, and my mother was cooking, I was with her in the kitchen enjoying cooking. I always helped her. Sometimes we prepared meals that my mother already knew how to make, and sometimes we prepared them from recipes. Nowadays, I am really thankful for that experience because I don’t need help to cook a meal. I can cook for me alone or for a group of people; it doesn’t matter.
I will do the same with my children because I don’t want them to have the same experience as my mother. If one day I am not with them, I want to be sure that they can carry on their lives without me.  
【小题1】 The writer’s mother learned cooking _______.
A. from the writer’s grandmother
B. all by herself
C. by taking cooking class
【小题2】The underlined word recipes in this passage most probably means _______.
A. instructions on how to cook food
B. experiences of cooking food
C. some well-known cooks
【小题3】We can learn from the passage that the writer’s children will _______.
A. hate cooking
B. learn cooking
C. teach cooking
【小题4】 The writer must think cooking is _______ to learn in life.
A. interesting          B. difficult          C. necessary
【小题5】According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. the writer’s mother didn’t know how to cook anything but an egg.
B. the writer’s mother started to cook after 25 years old.
C. the writer’s mother taught the writer how to cook because she disliked cooking.

根据短文内容和以下提示：1）首字母提示，2） 语境提示，3）汉语提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英文单词。所填单词要求意义正确，拼写准确。 （8分）

My name is Bob．I 1.　　　　　 an English boy．I 2.c from London．But now I am in Beijing．I am fourteen years 3. ．There are five people in my family．My father is a doctor．He works (工作) 4.i the People’s Hospital (医院)．My mother is a5.(教师) ．She teaches English in No．14 Middle School．I am 6.(她的)

student．I am in Class Eight, Grade Nine．My young brother Tim is only7.(四) years old．He doesn’t go to 8.s　　　　　．My grandma lives with us．She doesn’t work now．She looks after (照顾) Tim at home．We are very happy．